sábado, 2 de enero de 2016

As I said before, 2015 was a bad in year in terms of reading and reviewing. Between looking for work, dealing with the problems that come from having no income, the new gig, the two books, gym, life, and the rest of it, I didn't get even close to 200 books. Sadly, it was also the first since 2013 that I haven't cracked at least 120 books. In any case, I managed to tackle some monsters (Sattin, Ligotti, and VanderMeer, for example) and read some truly outstanding novels. I also started reading some great stuff and never finished it, so the 20 books or so that are in various stages shall be restarted this year. Yeah, I'm going to try to read 200 books in 2016. I even got the Goodreads app thingy so I can keep track. More about that later. Here's what I finished in 2015 in no particular order.

1. Skullcrack City by Jeremy Robert Johnson

2. Asura Girl by Otaro Maijo3. The Lost Level by Brian Keene4. First Yeah Healthy by Michael DeForge

5. Find Me by Laura van den Berg

6. Bipolar Cowboy by Noah Cicero7. Satanas by Mario Mendoza

8. Something Good, Something Bad, Something Dirty by Brian Alan Ellis

9. Area X by Jeff VanderMeer 10. Arrows of Rain by Okey Ndibe

11. Naked Friends by Justin Grimbol

12. The Afflictions by Vikram Paralkar

13. Winterswim by Ryan W. Bradley

14. Worm by Anthony Neil Smith

15. Mercy House by Adam Cesare

16. Today I Am A Book by xTx

17. How to Pose for Hustler by Andrea Kneeland

18. Visions by Troy James Weaver

19. Live Bait by Cameron Pierce

20. Revenge is a Redhead by Phil Beloin Jr.

21. Dodgeball High by Bradley Sanders

22. Jigsaw Youth by Tiffany Scandal

23. Black Gum by J David Osborne

24. GYO by Junji Ito

25. Morte by Robert Repino

26. The Abortion by Richard Brautigan

27. Goodbye to the Nervous Apprehension by Michael Heald

28. F-250 by Bud Smith

29. The Children of Old Leech edited by Ross E. Lockhart and Justin Steele

30. SNAFU: Heroes by various

31. Exponential by Adam Cesare

32. My Documents by Alejandro Zambra

33. Ocean Beach by Frank Cassese

34. Thieves Fall Out by Gore Vida

35. A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay

36. The Silence by Tim Lebbon

37. i want love so great by Calvero

38. New Yorked by Rob Hart

39. Double Indemnity by James M. Cain

40. Arafat Mountain by Mike Kleine

41. Witchita Stories by Troy James Weaver

42. Bull Mountain by Brian Panowich43. The Up-Down by Barry Gifford 44. Sanctuary by Ken Bruen45. New Yorked by Rob Hart46. Gun Machine by Warren Ellis 47. The Case Against Satan by Ray Russell48. Get It While You Can by Nick Jaina 49. Paradise Sky by Joe Lansdale50. Stealing Propeller Hats From The Dead by David James Keaton

51. Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe by Thomas Ligotti

52. Boiled Americans by Michael Allen Rose

53. Everything Used to Work by Robert Spencer 54. Border Lore: Folktales and Legends of South Texas by David Bowles 55. Tables Without Chairs #1 by Bud Smith and Brian Alan Ellis56. Rosario Tijeras by Jorge Franco 57. No Moon by Julie Reverb

67. The Incoming Tide by Cameron Pierce68. Sucker June by Sean Kilpatrick

69. The Cult of Loretta by Kevin Maloney

70. The Revelator by Robert Kloss71. Outdancing the Universe by Lauren Gilmore72. Bad Sex by Clancy Martin73. Safe Inside the Violence by Christopher Irvin 74. The Gun by Fuminori Nakamura 75. Martin and John by Dale Peck

76. Killing Auntie by Andrzej Bursa77. A Negro and an Ofay by Danny Gardner 78. Gestapo Mars by Victor Gischler

79. Mercy House by Adam Cesare

80. The New York Stories by Ben Tanzer

82. The Lost Treasures of R&B by Nelson George83. The Dream Keeper and Other Poems by Langston Hughes

84. The Silent End by Samuel Sattin85. The Strangest by Michael J. Seidlinger 86. The Last Weekend by Nick Mamatas

I also read about a dozen graphic novels and three or four books for children every night. Those are awesome. Happy reading, lovely creatures.